I disagree. Announcing the field is part of building the hype, and God knows, track needs to be better at building hype. I'm sick of meets where you don't know the fields until 1-2 days before it will take place. How do you get people invested if they don't know who is running? For all the people who have scratched, the overwhelming majority that were announced are still in there. I wouldn't go to Pre feeling that I was missold